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Title: A history of the Eighth Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers, including its service as infantry, Second N. H. Cavalry, and Veteran Battalion in the Civil War of 1861-1865, covering a period of three years, ten months, and nineteen days
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Stanyan, John M
Subjects: United States. Army. New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, 8th (1861-1865)
Publisher: Concord, I. C. Evans, Printer
Contributing Library: University of New Hampshire Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of New Hampshire Library

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brain-empowering vegetable ! That, with coffee,the tin-pot cofiee of the soldier by the wayside, was allconquering. Whiskey nor Louisiana rum aint nothin to it.The dullest of us saw that, one morning on the march, whena well known regiment started out ahead of us swingingalong in fine spirits, for the ardent had been liberally andofficially dealt out to them, but before ten a. m., the aromaof that juice had evaporated and we in turn passed scoresof them dropped out. Then occurred a dialogue the mostpithy and laconic ever recorded, veni^ v/di, vici is nowhere.Ed. Ross of Company B, well known as one of the colorcorporals, sang out to one of the exhausted as he was lyingbeside the road, the single word picket? The tellowbrightened up and indignantly shouted back picketwith the downward inflection, as much as to say in theslang phrase of 1890, What are you giving us? Yes,coffee was the great invigorator, the soul builder of the sol-dier, a twin with the beans that braced his backbone and
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SERGT JACOB F. CHANDLER, CO. D. New Hampshire Volunteers. 345 renewed his grit. Wliat chance had the rye tea and cornpone of the South against our Northern fodder? Then,too, there was the pecuHar combination known to sailorsas lobscouse — a thick soup of water, hard-tack, pork,beef with vegetables, plain and fresh from Mother Earth,if possible ; if not, desicated and concentrated from thesutler, in fact, an^thing and everything was welcome inthis hotch-potch of a sea-dish. It was good with an appe-tite in front of it. For the * staff of life hard bread wasthe most acceptable form. It was easier to carry than softbread, and had the advantage of being already dried.The addition of weevils and worms made no difference inthe eating, after dark. To close, we throw in the followinfj advance letters ofComrade J. F. Chandler, orderly sergeant of Company D : On April 9, 1S64, at about 5 a. m., at Pleasant Hill, ourregiment was given some hard-tack by Billy Adams,formerly of our regiment, but

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